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This might seem like a daft question but I've just started to wear glasses, I didn't realise how bad my eyes have got now everything is blurred without them. With them on I find I can't get a good look through the viewfinder and without them I can't tell if anything is in focus!

How do other spec wearers deal with this?
 
contact lenses or adjustable dioptre viewfinder

if you've got a SLR with liveview and an adjustable viewfinder it's not too bad to set up the eyepiece. Put the camera on a sturdy tripod, with good sharp lens mounted. Point it at a suitable item and use the liveview to get as sharp an image as you can. Switch lens to manual focus and DONT KNOCK IT. Then look through the eyepiece, and tweak the diopter adjustment wheel until the viewfinder is sharp. Hopefully, this will work - if you cant get a sharp image this way, you may need to resort to add-on diopter adjustment lenses.
 
I dont understand why you cant use the viewfinder with glasses?

best thing I ever did re photogrpahy and glasses is to get bifocals.. can look throuhg viewfinder AND chimp :)
 
I use the adjustment on the 450D, but I find it hard to use my glasses with my EF film camera (plus its just a pain to carry them around, I don't often need them )so ive memorised the positions of the apertures in the viewfinder, I can see the exposure needle though!
 
I wear glasses and have no problem using my G1s viewfinder with them on.
 
I wear glasses and the only problem I have is constantly having to wipe the smudge marks off my glasses.
 
Just gone to contacts and makes my photography much easier. Now I can get my face closer to the camera and see through the viewfinder better.

They are not for everyone though and although I could use the camera with my glasses I tended to have to push them on my forehead out of the way. To me that was a pain. I went toggin with my contacts for the first time on Saturday, it was so much simpler.
 
I wear glasses and I bought a magnifying eyepiece and just push the glasses to the top of my head when taking a pic:)
 
Maybe I just need to get used to them but. Just feel much further away than without them, I quiet liked havng my face squashed againt the camera. I have a d5000 but think the eyepiece is quite small compared to some others that I've used.
 
yep contact lenses
 
The other thing is I can only see out of one eye and I think that may make it a bit more disorientating
 
plymman said:
The other thing is I can only see out of one eye and I think that may make it a bit more disorientating
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I know exactly what you mean, I can only use the camera with one eye, because the other one is lazy so it doesn't focus properly, luckily there's live view :lol:
 
Yep, glasses or no glasses it's tricky when you've got your only eye up against a viewfinder and viewing the world through a half inch square!
 
I don't have a problem with my glasses on. Cr*p photos with them on, Cr*p photos without. Consistency at least !!:lol::lol:

No seriously it might depend on whether you are short or long sighted.

I seem to be ok with my glasses on.
 
jerry12953 said:
I've never had a problem looking through viewfinders with glasses on.

I should think you'll get used to it!

It may be that you need to get used to wearing the glasses first.;)
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My thoughts exactly. It takes time to get used to glasses for the first time.

It's no problem looking through the viewfinder with glasses on.
 
I tried contacts but couldn't get on with them, especially when squinting my left eye while looking through the right. It felt uncomfortable.

Long-time spectacles wearer, though.
 
Yep. He's still around. He turns up on Radio 4 every once in a while.

I first saw The Popticians perform on the 32-borough Save the GLC tour back in 1983 (I am dating myself badly now).

I just discovered that they re-formed briefly last year. Missed them :(
 
grahamsewelluk said:
Depending on which camera you use, and you're lucky if you do use a Canon dSLR, you can get gizmos like this eyepiece extender
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TVM for posting that...I have a tendency to press the menu (etc) buttons on my 5Dii with my nose, and the extender might just help to prevent it. At only £10ish from 7day shop, I've ordered one already!

I note from reviews that it is better to take the lens out of the extender, which is easy to do.

I note also that there are two models, the EP-EX15 for most bodies, and the EX15 II for the 450D, 500D and 1000D (IIRC) Anyone thinking of purchasing should check they get the right one.
 
jerry12953 said:
TVM for posting that...I have a tendency to press the menu (etc) buttons on my 5Dii with my nose, and the extender might just help to prevent it. At only £10ish from 7day shop, I've ordered one already!

I note from reviews that it is better to take the lens out of the extender, which is easy to do.

I note also that there are two models, the EP-EX15 for most bodies, and the EX15 II for the 450D, 500D and 1000D (IIRC) Anyone thinking of purchasing should check they get the right one.
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do they do one for the nikon D90, got to be better than having my nose squashed up against the screen
 
I use the adjustable dioptre viewfinder for my standard eyesite and wear a small pair of magnifying glasses on my nose to look at the LCD. It is far easier with an extesion to the viewfinder because you can keep the glasses on.
 
One of the original reasons for choosing Nikon 20 years ago, they used what was then called a 'high viewfinder', much better for spectacle wearers. These days . . . I had a D90, found I could not see the VF to the edges so well???

Changed to a D5000 for the animated screen, the VF screen is smaller, but I can see the edges OK, used to have a D40x, that had a smaller VF screen, I liked that as well. I use varifocals specs, have done for years seem to work OK for me, I think its what you get used to.
 
Generally speaking, crop format cameras are easier than full frame to see the whole image with. It's smaller, as the viewfinder image is also 'cropped'.
 
A decent old school spectacle maker can make a insert lens for the eyepiece, that will sort everything. made lots of them in my time
 
plymman said:
Maybe I just need to get used to them but. Just feel much further away than without them, I quiet liked havng my face squashed againt the camera. I have a d5000 but think the eyepiece is quite small compared to some others that I've used.
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I can empathise with this, having exactly the same feeling. I've put it down to the fact that the glasses prevent me getting my eye right up against the eyepiece and that makes looking down at the settings in the viewfinder difficult.

I tried contact lenses but can't wear them - too squeamish about sticking things in my eye :'(

I've experimented with adjusting the viewfinder diopter so that I can focus without my glasses on but it's too much of a faff to have to keep continually putting them on/take them off.
 
Just to get this straight, is the process to:

1) set the camera up on tripod and autofocus to something very contrasty so you know the camera can lock on focus easily.

2) switch to MF

3) look through viewfinder without glasses on and adjust diopter until image looks sharp

Is that right? I don't understand why you need to do the live view thing as suggested early on in this thread.

Dub
 
dubcat said:
Just to get this straight, is the process to:

1) set the camera up on tripod and autofocus to something very contrasty so you know the camera can lock on focus easily.

2) switch to MF

3) look through viewfinder without glasses on and adjust diopter until image looks sharp

Is that right? I don't understand why you need to do the live view thing as suggested early on in this thread.

Dub
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I was giving instructions that'd work with manual focus lenses as well :shrug:
Plus - with the liveview, you could zoom in 5x or 10x on a particular spot and make absoloutely sure that the lens isn't back or front focusing.
 
TheBigYin said:
I was giving instructions that'd work with manual focus lenses as well :shrug:
Plus - with the liveview, you could zoom in 5x or 10x on a particular spot and make absoloutely sure that the lens isn't back or front focusing.
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Ok cool. I'll have to try this tomorrow :) Thanks.
 
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